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4The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, March 19, 1991 ' y-y l WORLD BRIEFS Refugees report 5,000 dead iii Iraqi rebellions : SOUTHERN IRAQ More than 5,000 bodies are strewn around the streets of Iraq's second-largest city, Basra, casualties of a bloody rebellion against Saddam Hussein, refugees fjeeing into Kuwait said Monday. SThey said helicopters, which rebels report are from Iran, are airlifting sup plies to rebel-held areas in Basra. - The claims could not be indepen dently confirmed because foreign journalists have not been allowed in Iraq in recent weeks, except in southern areas occupied by allied forces. Food prices have skyrocketed throughout southern Iraq and starvation was reported rampant in some areas. "Basra is full of bodies," said Sahid Shaban, an Iraqi who fled Basra on Monday. "Dogs are eating them ev erywhere. There is no food, no water." In some places in the city, said Salem Salem Mosri, a waiter, the bodies were "stacked on top of each other, one by one." "We've heard that from several refugees, coming out at different times," he said. "It appears that Saddam's troops are carrying out revenge attacks." East Germans protest economic hard times .LEIPZIG, Germany More than 50,000 people gathered in eastern Ger man cities Monday night in demon strations hearkening back to pro-democracy protests of 1989. However, this time they demanded an end to their economic misery. Protests against Communism helped bring freedom to East Germany, not prosperity, said those who marched in Leipzig, the city considered the birth place of the East German revolution. "Misery. Our lives are misery. We stood here in the fall of 1989 to put down a dictator and now we are in another kind of dictatorship," said Claus "Itpavfi An Amencan Express company Complete terms and conditions of this Paetzold, who joined more than 30,000 people rallying in Leipzig. "We are victims so that people can live better in the West," said Paetzold, a chemical factory worker. People in eastern Germany are be coming restless as their living standards drop and they lose their jobs, while the better times promised by politicians from western Germany show no sign of arriving. Most demonstrations were reported to be peaceful. The demonstrators were reviving a series of Monday night protests, first begun in Leipzig, which helped over throw the east's hard-line government and pave the way toward reunification. This time, demonstrators were de manding that Bonn take swift steps to stop eastern Germany's dramatic eco nomic slide. They vowed to continue the revived protests each Monday until the troubled regional economy improves. Norway mayor wants legal ban on bad moods OSLO, Norway Mayor Arne Nilsen wants to make grumpiness ille gal in his island community of Sund. Nilsen told an Oslo newspaper that he would propose a resolution at a township council meeting Tuesday re quiring 5,000 Sund residents to be happy and think positive, while banning crankiness. "Unless the other council members are in a bad mood, I expect a majority in favor," the Dagbladet newspaper quoted him as saying. Sund residents are not abnormally gloomy but "get caught up in negative and sad things, rather than seeing all there is to be happy about. I am trying to do something about it," he said. Irascible islanders will not be pros ecuted. But Nilsen said the lighthearted edict might jolt them into better spirits. The proposal exempts sulkers with good cause, such as the brokenhearted, the report said. The Associated Press A Announces A Great New Travel Prosram. Now students can get the Card and get 3 roundtrips on Continental Airlines, for only $129 or $189 each. There's only one way to cover a lot of territory without spending a lot of money. And that's by getting the American Express Card. It's the only card that offers an exciting new travel program exclusively for students including three roundtrip certificates on Continental Airlines. 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Although not a new problem, this incident is a telling example of the po litical complications involving artistic expression in China. This bitter struggle U.S. wants Associated Press report RIYADH, Saudi Arabia The United States has rejected Iraq's request for permission to put warplanes in the air and is threatening to resume attacks if Baghdad does not comply, U.S. of ficials said yesterday. Secretary of State James Baker ac knowledged Sunday that grounding Iraq's warplanes would help rebels seeking to topple Saddam Hussein, but said the United States was not arming Investigations Edwards said interviews with investi gators from both agencies are being held in lawyer Alan McSurely's office. McSurely represents Edwards and many other UNC employees who have filed grievances against the University. Edwards said she had not been in terviewed by the EEOC investigator yet. "I was pleased with the other em ployees who did come," she said. "I was really proud of them coming forward." 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Accordingly, the leakage of American film, literature and art has profoundly to keep Iraqi warplanes grounde the insurgents. Baker met with President Bush at the White House yesterday morning to discuss his recent trip to the Middle East and Moscow. Bush later promised to press all fronts for a breakthrough for permanent peace in the Middle East. "We are not going to miss this oppor tunity," he said. The U.S. threat to attack pro-Saddam forces came in a meeting between Iraqi and U.S. military commanders in al nance supervisor who recently won a discrimination grievance at Step 3, said he talked to the EEOC investigator Thursday. He said he did not want to discuss specifics from the interview because he did not want to hamper the investigation. Griffin also has a pending grievance alleging his supervisors retaliated against him for filing the first grievance. Marshall-Williams said EEOC in vestigations in the Raleigh area average 143 days. 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And get ready to cover new territory on either side of our Great Continental Divide. AMEX your certificates will be arriving soon. assumes no liability for Continental Airlines' performance. 1991 CMiiese artists affected the country, Lomperis said. A professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing confirmed the potency of American influences. She says her students are obsessed with American music, fashion and literature. And they frequently knock on her office door with American romance novels in hand hoping to get help in translating. Lomperis said American popular culture is attractive to the Chinese be cause it reflects a democratic emphasis on individualism which is lacking in Marxist ideology. He said it is precisely for this reason that the government feels so threatened by their citizens' yearning for American "things." "Students are obsessed with the indi vidualism of American culture. And this cultural impact will have a tremen dous political impact," said Lomperis. lied-occupied southern Iraq, said two officials with the U.S. Central Command in Saudi Arabia who spoke on condition of anonymity. U.S. officials say Iraq has put military planes and helicopters in the sky in the past several days in its struggle against internal rebellion, heightening concern that allied forces could be attacked. The U.S. Central Command said this was clearly a violation of the terms of a temporary cease-fire set two weeks ago. complexity, could take any amount of time." The commission bases its decisions by comparing the treatment of a com plainant to the treatment of someone of a different race or gender, she said. "We establish discrimination based usually on parity." If the EEOC finds that the organiza tion discriminates in employment practices, it issues a letter describing its findings, she said. The commission then tries to remedy the situation. If conciliatory efforts fail, the EEOC or the complainant has the option of CONTINENTAL American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. The Li Peng-led government has: characteristically blamed the increas-' ing popularity of Western thought in -their country on what they see as de liberate attempts by American officials to Westernize the country. There is. growing fear among Chinese officials that student exchanges between Wash-; ington and Beijing have contributed to the fascination with American culture. . To suspend American influences, leaders launched an anti-American, campaign last year and published an ; updated version of a booklet, "Histori- cal Examples of American Imperial ism's Invasion of China." But Chi is not at all convinced that such tactics will be effective. "They (the Chinese government) are trying to put on the breaks. But in the long run they are going to lose control." Baker said the allies told the Iraqis that aircraft "should be used for logis tical purposes and not for the purpose of shooting and dropping bombs on your own people." Baker acknowledged the prohibition on moving Iraqi aircraft had a "collat eral effect" of hindering Baghdad from fighting the insurgencies that took hold inside Iraq as the war ended. But he insisted the move was not intended to help topple Saddam's government. from page 1 taking private employers to court, Marshall-Williams said. But state or government employers cannot be taken to court, so the issue is referred to the U.S. Justice Department. Murphey said OCR investigations usually take 30 to 120 days depending on the size of the organization being investigated. Investigators then issue a letter to the complainant and the orga nization under investigation stating their findings, he said. Both parties may respond to the let ter, and investigators then issue a final findings letter that may suggest cor rective action, Murphey said. HOSpitalS from page! evaluations and pay were low, Stokes said. "But we're still at a 3.4 level," which he said was satisfactory. D 3.38 on communication between employees and supervisors. B 3.33 on how well new staff mem bers are integrated into the hospital environment. "The survey confirmed that we can always get better," Stokes said. "We want to look at (the categories) again in November or December of 1992 and hope to see improvement." Jennifer Fisher, assistant director of volunteers, said a few questions related to hospital volunteers, who also par ticipated in the survey. "A lot of improvement can happen, especially the morale of employees," Fisher said. WUNC from page 1 options have large financial expendi tures. We could remain in Swain for the next few years, but anything can hap pen. Swain Hall may be demolished in the future, which is one reason WUNC is considering moving, he said. Davis said the station's Capital . Campaign, which began in 1987, would continue. The station has informed contributors that the building plans have been halted, he said. "This in no way rules out the possi bility that a new building will be built," he said. "I just can't say when." The response from contributors has been mixed so far, Davis said. "People who still support us are in the over whelming majority," he said. Soviet from page 1 The Baltics held their own referendums and voted overwhelmingly for inde pendence: 91 percent in Lithuania, 74 percent in Latvia and 78 percent in Estonia. Georgia, also boycotting on Sunday, was expected to approve inde pendence in a referendum later this month. Gorbachev campaigned heavily in favor of the main referendum question, and after casting his ballot Sunday said he opposed strengthening the Russian presidency. . He called the Russian presidency "dangerous," but said he would "respect the opinion of the Russians." Russia has by far the most land and highest popu lation of the republics. Yeltsin said Friday that "introducing the post of president of Russia will help strengthen the sovereignty of the re public. "We feel that the president of Russia should be elected not by a narrow circle, but by the citizens of the republic all the people," he said, urging leaders throughout the Soviet Union to face direct election. Gorbachev, elected president of the Cn;TTn;nr. k if. n,ri;omnt in 1 QQO kjvsviwi uuiuil jj na pal luuiiviii 111 rskjs and again last year, has avoided a popular election. Gorbachev's referendum lost heavily in the pro-union Western Ukraine. In the Soviet capital of Moscow, only a bare majority voted to preserve the union, and 46 percent said no, Tass said. In Leningrad, 50 percent voted in favor and 43 percent against.
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